{"id":271645,"date":"2025-11-19T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271645\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T13:00:08","slug":"religious-education-supreme-court-rules-the-christian-focused-re-taught-in-ni-schools-is-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271645\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious education: Supreme Court rules the Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What about Catholic schools?published at 12:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Catholic maintained sector, which has more than 400 primary and secondary schools, is the only large faith-based sector in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About half the grammar schools in Northern Ireland are also Catholic in ethos and are identifiably religious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ruling is likely to have some impact on Catholic schools, but only in terms of the curriculum and worship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other religious elements, such as crucifixes on classroom walls, statues and preparation for Holy Communion will likely continue and ethos will be largely unaffected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The laws around collective worship and Christian-focused RE lessons apply to Catholic schools in the same way as they do to the state controlled sector, which while non-denominational, largely serves the Protestant community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All schools &#8211; Catholic maintained, state controlled, integrated, Irish-medium and voluntary grammar must follow the core syllabus. Individual schools are then free to build upon this in a way that best suits the<br \/>\nneeds of their pupils and their ethos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition, the RE core syllabus includes Christianity, morality, world religions and a requirement at Key Stage 4 (GCSE) &#8220;for pupils to study the Christian church from both a Protestant and a Roman Catholic perspective&#8221; at all schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What about Catholic schools?published at 12:59 GMT 12:59 GMT The Catholic maintained sector, which has more than 400&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-271645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}